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Ethnic minority veterans wearing commemorative buttons, some featuring Chairman Mao Zedong, greet each other at a flea market in Poksam county in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on March 21, 2021. Four years after Beijing's brutal crackdown on largely Muslim minorities native to Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are dialing back the region's high-tech police state and stepping up tourism. But even as a sense of normality returns, fear remains, hidden but pervasive. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
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